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    STAMBOUL

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Churchplay

    Synonyms:

    Constantinople; Istanbul; Stamboul; Stambul

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

    Meronyms (parts of "Stamboul"):

    Bosporus Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul)

    Hagia Sofia; Hagia Sophia; Santa Sofia; Santa Sophia (a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century)

    Chalcedon; Kadikoy (a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon)

    Holonyms ("Stamboul" is a part of...):

    Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

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